John Zorn, maverick American jazz saxophonist, composer, improviser, record producer and impresario turns 60 this year. He has been writing orchestral scores since the 1970s, but not until this BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert under Ilan Volkov has any orchestra dared to devote an entire evening to his music.

Judging by the packed audience, a night of orchestral Zorn was long overdue. His orchestral music is a whole mercurial world, always ready with new sonorities around the corner. It would be futile to list all the influences: Zorn plays with everything he has heard and experienced. The pace is frenetic, presenting ideas in wham-bam succession, not always bothering with connecting tissue. There is no time to get bored with the surface detail; whether there is enough underlying direction is less sure. Either way, the range and clarity of colours is dazzling. This is a composer who knows what sounds he wants, and, for the most part, how to get them.